Example sentences of "[modal v] rely on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 2 | The living conditions of the displaced are invariably extremely difficult and many must rely on church and humanitarian organizations for basic assistance . |
| 3 | Those normally at work but disabled by non-industrial illness have had a limited cover under National Insurance , and those who have never been in the workforce have very limited special provision and must rely on income support if they lack resources . |
| 4 | Whether attitudes towards BSL can be altered or not , those who come into work with deaf people will have to approach the task of learning BSL and it may be that the weight of sign learning must rely on motivation to the task and the cognitive and age factors . |
| 5 | Here too a translator must rely on intuition and Sprachgefühl . |
| 6 | The tsar was wrong to think that he could rely on payment for the help he had given Austria in 1849 . |
| 7 | With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks . |
| 8 | But the Assembly had purely consultative powers and real authority rested in a Council of Ministers , created at the same time , in which Britain could rely on support , from the Scandinavians and others , for strictly inter-governmental co-operation . |
| 9 | In the past , drugs firms could rely on innovation for success : one blockbuster drug was enough to win a place at the top of the pharmaceutical league table . |
| 10 | Shop stewards very occasionally may rely on power to ‘ bully ’ members on the shop floor ; most shop stewards hope that members will accept their guidance as industrial relations ‘ experts ’ and therefore exert influence through expert power . |
| 11 | Under normal conditions , therefore , they may rely on plant stems and trees to remain upright . |
| 12 | This would discriminate against the growth of small , new firms , which may rely on bank loans to finance their investment . |
| 13 | Meade will rely on Heist in the Festival Bumper , and both Mubadir and Glencloud in the County Hurdle . |
| 14 | They too are going to nest and they will rely on puffin meat to feed their chicks . |
| 15 | Convention establishes certain procedures so that when clear rules are adopted according to these procedures , people can rely on state intervention in their behalf ; they can also rely on the state not to intervene at the behest of other citizens except as these rules stipulate and can plan and coordinate their affairs accordingly . |
| 16 | German and Japanese firms , knowing that they can rely on sound and stable government , also know that there is no great risk to them in early mechanisation . |
| 17 | Confusingly , parents were advised to do X ; then , after perhaps a generation X was out , it was best to do Y. Nowadays we can rely on research studies for at least some evidence about the desirability and effectiveness of this or that approach , and about the influence of certain styles of parenting on the child 's development and wellbeing . |
| 18 | Only six per cent of single mothers can rely on maintenance as their main source of income . |
| 19 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |